Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undercover agents recorded their information not just in the hurlyburly of the pits but on social occasions as well. Two feds working the Board of Trade solicited stories about illegal trades by throwing lavish parties in their high-rise apartments and by joining the posh East Bank Club, a gym popular with commodities brokers. One agent who called himself Richard Carlson claimed that he specialized in soybean contracts and was a native New Yorker; the other, who called himself Michael McLoughlin, said he worked the Treasury- bond pit and was from Florida. "Both were nice guys, pleasant, friendly," recalls...
...ranked as the worst in three years. Despite desperate efforts to reform agriculture, the harvest came in 16 million tons below the previous year and 40 million tons below 1988 targets. Pravda, meanwhile, reported that the Soviet crime rate climbed nearly 17% in the past year, and attributed the rise partly to corruption spawned by new economic freedoms...
Ironically, blame might rest with the success of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. The call for openness has given rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway...
...holds- barred business acumen, but Seiji showed prescience and boldness in leading the Seibu stores to the forefront of Japanese retailing. The increasingly astute businessman predicted that young, affluent Japanese would spend more than their parents and guessed that they would prefer high-priced, stylish goods. Seiji's rise has not been totally smooth. In the mid-1970s Yoshiaki rescued his half brother from ruin when the Seibu Kanko Kaihatsu company, a leisure, real estate and tourism group, incurred debts of $550 million. The terms of the rescue were never disclosed, and it is not known whether the help...